Products I Love!! Giveaway Time!!

Since I have become a mom, I lean on other moms for advice, tips, pretty much everything, so when I come across things I use and love I share with my readers too! Since having my son 8 weeks ago and juggling work and my two year old toddler things are pretty crazy around our home. I found that I have no energy anymore and since I am breastfeeding I can't rely on energy drinks or anything to give me that boost. So when approached by the makers Intelligender to try some products I thought why not. One product that I couldn't wait to try was the "New Mom Rebalancing Drops". Basically you put drops into a little water and drink it 3 times a day and the product helps the rebalancing of hormone levels and for me another great thing was promote a healthy production of breast milk so I was eager to see if this would work. I will say, the taste is something you need to get use to, but the directions say you can add to juice if you like so there is a bonus. Just after one week of use, I feel a big difference. I am not as run down anymore, I felt like I was really "balancing" (no pun intended...lol) the baby along with everything else. There website gives this description " The first few weeks after your baby is home can be a period of wonderment and immense joy as you get to know your precious new addition. However, this can also be an overwhelming time, with little sleep and big routine adjustment – with utterly no time to stop and consider your new role. IntelliCeutical’s herbs have been used by women for centuries that desire to support a natural postnatal recovery and a swift return to normal after baby has been born." and I feel it does just that. You use the drops for 6 weeks which should be one bottle, but I can say that I plan on continuing the use after. I want to share these amazing drops with a lucky reader, and no you don't have to be a "new" mom to get the benefits! All you have to do is follow me on twitter @diaryofadivamom and Intelligender @Intelligender and post a comment below saying your following both and one reader will be drawn at random to win a FREE BOTTLE of New Mom Rebalancing Drops! Yes, that easy! Winner will be drawn THIS Sunday so make sure you follow today for your chance to win!!

Hello All Blizzard Blog Hop Peeps!

So, I am so excited to be apart of this years Blizzard Blog Hop!! Let me take this time to introduce myself; my name is Kimberly and I am the words behind Diary of a Diva Mom. The idea of my blog came about when I was actually expecting my first child. My mother made a joke that I was way too much of a diva to have kids, soon after she made that little comment we found out we were having a girl so I knew this "diva" was in for it, because the next generation diva was soon on her way! And I was right. So my blog is all about my crazy life with her!! I am married to my best friend that drives me CRAZY for 3 and 1/2 years and we recently welcomed our second child, a little man, this past December. So sit back, sip on some coco and feel free to read more, and don't forget to leave a comment and maybe follow me for my future posts if you like!!

Wordless Wednesday

If only this would last forever .. What are some sweet moments between your kids?

New Year? New Me? Maybe Not.

So I know one of my 11 New Year's resolutions was to lose weight by my daughter's 3rd birthday, and right after New Year's I was doing really great but since then not so much. I mean don't get me wrong, I have done a baby boot camp class and I started eating better but nothing that I am sticking  to. At first I was very proud that I had lost 12 pounds but now I am slowly gaining it back now that I returned to work.

The whole dieting process depresses me, seriously. I can't get into eating healthy 24/7 and I surely have NO time to work out with a newborn. Okay that's a lie, I do have time I just have no desire. Every part of me rebels when I suddenly get on a diet then I just feel worse after. I know I need  to get healthy and I know I want to get in shape but if I am counting on myself to do it alone it will never happen. I am just at a loss of what to do, or I was. The other day I got a email from AOL about some promotions they were offering and one was a free 7 day trial for www.fitorbit.com so I decided to check it out.

The idea is simple, not everyone can afford a trainer and I am one of those people, and not everyone knows how to eat or workout properly, and again I am one of  those people. So, you take a quiz and the system matches you up with your own personal trainer. The quiz gets really in depth, down to the foods and exercises I refuse to do, times I get up, eat and sleep, everything. The system then shows you 3 trainers that best match your needs and goals and you pick which one you want. About one day later you get a full week meal plan and exercises plan based on what you said you wanted from your workout routine. You get a full grocery list as well. Every day you log in and check off the food that you were scheduled to eat including snacks or you can modify your food if you changed it. It tracks all your calories you eat, tells you how to prepare the meals and it even offers a restaurant guide for foods similar in your area that you are suppose to eat at that time! It really takes the guess work out of everything!!

You can talk to your trainer at anytime by leaving a message and there  is even a panic button for when you feel like your giving up. It really is a trainer at your fingertips. I love that I have a exercises to do that do not require equipment because I stated I did not have any and it gives me detailed instructions on how to do the exercises. I am in LOVE with this site. It can be pricey, you can choose to pay weekly, monthly or have a 6 month commitment, and so far I can see why I would join month to month and still come out MUCH cheaper than hiring someone at my local gym.

I rally like my trainer, she is a mom of two and she was where I am right now. Post baby and really out of shape, so I feel like she can relate to me. I actually started today so I am really excited  to see what the end of my trail period if I have lost any weight at all. Even if it's a pound, every pound adds up! Check out the site if you want more info but so far I am really glad I joined up! Now it's sticking to it that will be the real test!! Until next time diva readers ..

Muah!


Disclaimer
**This is not a advertisement for fitorbit, this is strictly what I think of the site!! :)

Wonderful Giveaway!!

Okay so I am the diva of all diva's .. before kids I had all the time in the world to do my makeup and hair to complete perfection. One two year old and one newborn later , yeah that part of my life has taken a backseat! Well when I saw this give away from Punk Rock Momma (http://punkrockmomma.com/2011/01/mommy-makeup-review-and-giveaway.html) I had to check out the product!  The company is called Mommy Makeup, they have products to help us mom's always on the go look beautiful but in a quick way! Even if I don't win any free products I think I will check out their products, I mean after all if I can save time and still look good, I have to give it a try!! Visit Punk Rock Momma link (above) for more info on the giveaway!!

Wordless Wednesday

So since I have failed to show off my little man I will post a pic of mini diva and little man just a few days after we got home .. Ignore my diva's messy hair, this was taken at 7 am .. lol 

I just wish they stayed loving each other like this forever! 

Oh The Flu .. Just Kill Me.

Here I am 5 weeks into new mommy bliss! I mean could life be easier right now, first time breast feeding, no sleep, mountains of laundry and well a not so spotless house (gag me). In all seriousness things have been great, I am so glad I decided to breast feed and I wish I would have done it with the mini diva, it has been such a incredible experience with our son, not easy by no stretch of the imagination but so worth it.

On Saturday, I was just telling my husband how things were just getting back to normal and how on top of things I was feeling, (well I am still not out of my pj's yet but this is a work in progress people.) Then there it was the first cough, out of my little diva. Nothing to be alarmed about right?  Half way through Saturday my little one was quite a handful, not out of the norm but she was just off. We had to run a few errands out of town and half way through the trip my daughter looked flushed, so I felt her head and putting it mildly I could have cooked bacon on it. She was sick. Great, we are locked in a car, a hour from home and she is siting next to her baby brother.

We get home and things went from bad to worse, 104 fever and she broke out in these ulcers all in her mouth and down her throat from the fevers. She was sick alright and she had been around her brother for most of the day. So to say I was worried is a understatement. Well one ER trip later on Sunday and confirming with her doctor my little diva had the diva of all sickness's .. The FLU. Just wonderful, I kept thinking this was the universes way of testing me with two kids. I just kept thinking, how am I going to do his while my husbands at work, I mean I have to keep two demanding kids apart, this wasn't going to be easy.  And it hasn't been.

Two days into this,  I am covered in vomit my hands are basically cracked open from so much germex, my house smells like a bad mix of lysol and bleach, I so don't have this under control. I am running from one room to feed one and running across the house to hose down the other, never before in my life did I believe in human cloning as much as I do now.  How the HELL did my parents do this with 4 kids, I mean how does any parent do this with more than one child. I have a whole new respect for moms of multiple children and that is no joke. If this was my first test as a mommy of two I have failed, but at least  now I can get a job as a janitor at my local hospital, I do have what it takes to sanitize!  Seriously how do you moms do this??

The importance of mothers ..

Since my mom died a month ago, I have been thinking a lot about her and the role she played in my life. It's so strange so many of us walk around day to day and never think about our moms and what they give to us and how they better and sometimes worsen our lives, until they aren't with us anymore. My mother and I had a very roller coaster relationship, the highs were high and the lows were low but she shaped me to be the person I am today, good and bad. I miss her, and to be honest up to the day she actually died I never thought I would really lose her, I mean she was like a cat with nine lives and no matter what life threw at her or what she threw at herself she bounced back like a tiger. I am like that in a lot of ways, in fact I think that is where I am the most like her I am strong willed, hard headed, very opinionated and I do things going at a speed of 200 miles per hour, all things my mother was. Sometimes I was embarrassed that she was my mom, but for the life of me right now I can't remember all the reasons. Damn I miss her. I have stayed awake lately mostly due to a newborn but 90% because all I can think about is her, I stare at my two kids while they sleep and I hate that they will never know who she is, only by stories and pictures, but never know her. My mother's role in my life I truly believe was to shape me to be strong a take no prisoners type of woman, and while growing up I wish I had the cookie cutter mom, the one that always hugged me and was my soft voice when I was hurting, and maybe for my other sisters she was that role for them, but for me she was the person who pushed to see how much I would push back and I hated that then, but I thank her so much for that now.




As much as I miss my mother and it's true I walk around with a half of me completely empty right now I have been so very lucky to have another person play a very different role in my life, my step mom. God it feels CRAZY to say step mom since I have been very young I haven't really called her that unless I am explaining her to people. My dad married my step mom when I was 2 so really she has been another bio mom to me. Now don't get me wrong there were times I thought I was the step kid and felt like it was a forced love but I think that’s normal when your young, now that I am older I see the real role she played in my life and how she shaped my life. I was not always easy on her and lord knows for a long time I didn't make her life easy by raising me, to sum it up, I was a little bitch as a kid. There I said it, and now she has it in writing (ha ha). She has always been a good woman, not the other woman like some people view their step moms. She as long as I can remember was the kind voice; she would step in when my dad and I would butt heads and be the voice of reason. She listened to thousands of hours of stories, from bad boyfriends, bad friends, teachers and more. She has bailed me out when she didn't have to, and sometimes when she shouldn't have. She was kind and loving to me no matter what, and sometimes she could have walked away. She held my hand while I cried and fought for me when I was wrong. She took me from a angry kid to the compassionate woman I am today. My mother taught me how to be strong and my step mom taught me how to love. I think I realized exactly her love when my mother died, she didn't have to be at that funeral, but she was for my sisters and I, to be there to hold our hand and help to pick up the pieces of our hearts that were shattered on the floor.



Again, we never think about the roles our mothers play, now I think about the role I want to play for my kids. Will I be there rock? There heart? Both? No matter what I have two mothers that guided me to this point with my own kids, and while I may not have always been proud of both my mothers growing up, I see them for the wonderful women they are today and I am damn proud to say I have two great moms. So what is your mother or mother’s role in your life? Have you thought about that? Are you a mother or even step mother? Do you think about what you leave behind to your children that have nothing to do with material possessions? Think about those things while you have the chance to tell someone how much their life made yours better...Even the not so perfect moms deserve to hear that, my mother did and I didn't do that, ever, this is my way today.

What's a mother to do?

So I decided that my two year old is now to old for her "pippy" aka nu-nu, well I have been saying she has been too old since she turned two in June but I never stuck with it. I guess I wasn't ready just yet, I mean it was a sign that my baby girl was growing up and partly because her screaming for it was so damn annoying I would just give in, until yesterday. On a car ride I noticed mini diva was putting the pippy to the side in her mouth to talk, which tells me she knows she doesn't really need it, and truthfully she didn't. At her school she isn't allowed to have it, and that means that her nap times she doesn't have it, so why does she need it at home? SHE DOESN'T. So I just took it away, just like that cold turkey for both of us. And well so far so good, well kinda. My child has been acting so crazy today it is actually comical. I mean she is bouncing off the walls, talking a mile a minute to the point I can't understand her. I have tried so hard not to laugh but I can't help it, I mean you would swear I just took her off caffeine or drugs! If you don't believe its that bad, check out my little video, she was suppose to be in bed but this is what I got instead:

Yep mini diva is in full force tonight, so between the not sleeping with my newborn and well my very colorful child this will be a very long and interesting night.  Wish me luck!

Happy New Year! Goodbye 2010!!

Well it's another year .. another year has gone by, so many things about 2010 I could do without and so many things I could relive again and again. My major highlight this year was finding out I was expecting for a second time and much to my shock and my husbands HUGE joy we were having a boy! Our little joy came in early December and my heart was just full since. So this diva mom has just got one extra person to love! The lowest point for 2010 was the sudden passing of my mother. I am still in shock everyday. I miss her so much, but at the same time I am dealing with a lot of anger, disappointment, hurt and betrayal in the wake of her death... I don't think I am ready to deal with her death just yet, I am just trying to go with the flow.

So here's to hoping that 2011 is a year just full of joy and happiness, I think my family is due. And with 2011 finally here, I have made a list, yes a list of resolutions for the new year. In honor of 2011 I have 11 things I would like to full-fill by the end of the year. Here is my list:


1. Be at my goal weight by mini diva's 3rd birthday(JUNE). 
2. Read a new book a month. 
3. Get back to blogging. 
4. Pick up a new hobby and stick with it. 
5. Learn to cook. 
6. be a "martha mom" 
7. Back to church EVERY Sunday. 
8. Seek peace with my moms passing. Get her final wishes sought out. 
9. Dinners AT the table. 
10. No TV/Cell phones and just family days. 
11. Get mini diva potty trained!


So here's to a start of a great year!!! And you will be seeing well reading more about my life, so stay tuned!